This matter involved far too much. One careless misstep, and the Human Race might well be wiped out. They had no choice but to consider it carefully.
"There is nothing to hesitate over," one ancestor said. "If we do not seize this opportunity, the gap between us and the Demon Race will only grow wider. One day, our race may face extinction!"
When it was unrealistic to surpass an opponent stronger than oneself by rapidly increasing one's own strength, there was another, simpler method: drag the other side down to one's own level.
Originally, that could only have been wishful thinking. Now, however, the opportunity lay right before them. It was practically a pie falling from the sky.
"Pies never fall from the sky, and there is no such thing as a free lunch!" another ancestor snorted. "Have you investigated Ye Xiwen's background?"
"I happen to know a little about that," one ancestor said. "When Ye Xiwen first made a name for himself years ago, our race considered whether we should recruit him into our ranks."
The Human Race currently lacked resources, lacked inheritances, and lacked geniuses most of all. Having finally found one, they naturally wanted to win him over.
"So we specially investigated his background. He claimed to come from the Ancient Barrens, and that has long ceased to be a secret. I sent people to look into it as well. He truly did come from the Ancient Barrens, and from the Ye Family of the Ancient Barrens at that. Old Ye, your family has produced quite the thousand-mile colt!" That ancestor looked enviously toward a wrinkled old man among them. "He even carved out an enormous reputation in the Ancient Barrens and saved the Ancient Barrens Human Race several times. Sigh, after coming to the Profound World,